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Education Infrastructure and Unsustainable Development in Africa Rather than creating the appropriate social relations for the means of production, the perspective on development in Africa has hinged on "infrastructure for development" thus leading to underdevelopment. This is because the social relation of infrastructure for development is parasitic and thus cannot reproduce itself. What it does is to accumulate primitive capital for conspicuous consumption rather than the creation of...

Abstract The concepts of education as well as emancipation are a veritable cauldron of interpretations and perspectives. This paper examines the nexus between education and emancipation from an African philosophical perspective. It establishes that while it is generally conceded in many quarters that education is necessarily related to emancipation, the nature of such relationship, (as to whether it is symmetrical, asymmetrical or non-symmetrical) has not been clearly articulated. In filling...

This study examines some aspects of the quality of Alternative Basic Education (ABE) provision in Ethiopia. Educational indicators of quality were formulated under two general topic areas of ABE programme process and content, and pupil learning outcomes. A qualitative-interpretative research approach and survey design was used to collect data from primary and secondary sources and to provide separate case descriptions of the five regions and two city administrations studied. The study’s main...

Introduction Libraries acquire material to meet the informational or recreational needs of its clientele. It is the responsibility of the library staff to keep these materials in good physical condition so they are available for users at all times. Materials in many libraries and archives throughout the country are still housed in conditions that leave much to be desired. A large portion of information recorded on audio or videotape about important events, people, etc., has been routinely...

The path to upward mobility or economic success for African American men is often filled with obstacles and roadblocks. Many first‐generation African American men entering colleges and universities face limited resources and opportunities to aid in their career development and efforts to meet their career objectives. This article explores the career development needs of African American men attending colleges and universities. The article provides suggestions, techniques, and strategies that...

Introduction Education helps define the life, values, political culture, and economic power of a nation. Knowledge, skills, norms, and values of responsible citizenship are inculcated through education. It is through education that the human resource capital of a nation is harnessed and deployed for development. As a nation, we often focus on projects like roads, housing, water, and power. According to Jumaid (2008) we must bear in mind that we need: * An educated workforce to build those...

This article analyses recent national policy on further education and training (FET) college lecturer development in South Africa in the light of more established curricula and practice for the training of vocational teachers internationally. The policy published by the national Department of Education suggests standards for college teaching which encompass academic competence, work experience and pedagogic competence. However, qualifications are yet to be designed, developed and offered by...

I have rarely been bombarded almost simultaneously by so many emotions as I was in reading this book. As a gender activist I felt deeply sad to once again face the realisation that violence against girls and women in South Africa remains a daily experience for far too many. I felt my heart torn out as I read the story of the little girl who was raped in grade one and I was filled with frustration towards the her mother who was angry with her for becoming sexually active at so early an age. I...

Methamphetamine use has become a growing problem in a number of countries over the past two decades, but has only recently emerged in South Africa. This study investigated the prevalence of methamphetamine use among high-school students in Cape Town and whether students reporting methamphetamine use were more likely to be at risk for mental health and aggressive behavior problems.A cross-sectional survey of 15 randomly selected high schools in Cape Town, of 1561 males and females grade 8-10...

Substantial costs are associated with attrition of key talent in South African organizations.As a result, organisations invest in graduate internship programmes to attract and retain high calibre graduate interns.The main objective of the research was to determine whether soft skills and technical skills training, as part of a graduate internship programme, contributed to the retention of graduate interns in a South African Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) company.An...

The empirical goal of this study was to examine whether or not diversity course graduation requirements at a Midwest university reduce racial prejudice and increase support for race-based policy. 128 undergraduate students enrolled in diversity courses completed measures of equal opportunity for African Americans, modern racism, and opposition to race-based policy two weeks before the semester ended. I predicted that those students who had already completed the diversity course graduation...

The Northern Territory (NT) is the smallest settlement location for migrants and refugees in Australia. Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in the number of Sub-Saharan African women migrants and refugees in the NT. This influx has generated a range of government and community responses to build these African migrants and refugees' capacity to integrate into their host community. This article is inspired by the author's personal experience as an African immigrant woman...

The purpose of this study was to document epidemiological features, outcomes, and aetiologies of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) in a teaching hospital in Lomé, Togo.A retrospective study of patients with SJS/TEN treated from January 2002 to April 2009 in a teaching hospital in Lomé was conducted.During the study period, 89 patients were treated for SJS/TEN, i.e., SJS in 76 cases, TEN in 9, and overlapping SJS/TEN in 4. Mean age was 30.3 +/- 13.4 years and...

Central to the success of education policy in emerging and developing nations is the study of the economic and distributional efficiency of student placement in higher-education colleges and universities. We study student placement in Egyptian colleges under the current demand / supply placement mechanism implemented in Egypt e-mechanism) and compare to the Gale-Shapley algorithm from an economic efficiency point of view. The efficiency criterion is modeled on three grounds: (1) Pareto...

There is a great deal that can be learnt from the respective successes andsuccesses of Africa and India in different fields and this is what is presented in this paper.[Working Paper 19]

The purpose of the study is to determine whether Caribbean Hispanic and African admixture populations have a paucity of mutations in GJB2, encoding connexin 26. We reported the paucity of mutations in GJB2 and deletions in GJB6 in Caribbean Hispanic and African admixture populations in the Bronx, NY, in 2007 [1]. We have now collected 102 additional probands with non-syndromic sensorineural hearing impairment (NSHI), for a total of 209. We describe here a presentation of the combined data....

A Dissertation Submitted to the Institute of Distance and Open Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor’s Degree in Education of Kampala International University

In both policy and research contexts, internationalisation in African higher education is welcomed for its potential to strengthen local capacity and cautioned against for its potential to extend long‐standing asymmetries of power in international partnerships. This paper examines two sets of developments which seek to re‐orient internationalisation to allow for greater local control, local focus and local benefit. The one relates to a more formalised policy, planning and research approach...